Friday Night Flix

From Here to Eternity (Black &White, 1953) The setting: Oahu, Hawaii, 1941 - just months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor… A career soldier transfers to this tropical paradise where his life becomes a living hell because he refuses to box for his regiment. Meanwhile, the captain’s wife has begun a love affair with the […]

King Kong (The Original) (Black and White, 1933) Does it get any better than this? The original King Kong on a large screen… You know the story. A movie crew goes to an exotic island – and gets a little more than they bargained for. King Kong is somehow brought back to NYC, where he […]

Inherit the Wind (Black and White, 1960) Where did we come from? Were we created or did we evolve? That’s exactly the question that Spencer Tracy and Fredric March argue in a hot Tennessee courtroom. The story, based on the 1925 Scopes “monkey” Trial, was originally written as a play in 1955 as a means […]

Notorious (Black and White, 1946) You want espionage? You want heart pounding suspense? You want a two and a half minute on-screen kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman? Look no further. This is the story of an American born woman whose father was convicted of spying for the Nazis. Reluctantly, she agrees to spy […]

Frozen River (2008) 97 min. In the days before Christmas near a border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec, two single mothers, a Mohawk and a white, face desperate circumstances. They are drawn, by the lure of fast money, into the world of border smuggling across the frozen waters of […]

Ten Canoes (2006) 90 min. Ten canoes, three wives, 150 spears...trouble! An adventure comedy drama, playfully narrated by Australian icon David Gulpilil, and directed by Rolf de Heer (The Tracker) this is a “dreaming” story of a young man who feels that the youngest wife of his older brother should be his. The story includes […]

Smoke Signals (1998) 89 min. The first movie to be written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans, it shows in rich, humorous detail what life is like for young “Indians" today, including reservation basketball games and the rituals of frybread. An eccentric storyteller and an angry young man embark on a road trip to retrieve […]